Previous winners of the Gordon Spice Trophy

Most commonly a two-part race, the Gordon Spice Trophy, previously known as the Gerry Marshall Trophy, began as a competition between larger-capacity and smaller-capacity touring cars. Ford Capris and Chevrolet Camaros would face off against Mini 1275GTs and Triumph Dolomite Sprints, and in the early years it was the big-engined beasts that ran roughshod over their diminutive counterparts. 

Chris Ward’s Rover SD1 was the car to beat at the 72^nd, 73^rd, 74^th and 75^th Members’ Meetings, seeing off the challenge of Capris and Camaros to claim five wins across the Sprint and Trophy races. He only missed out in 2015 because a retirement in the Sprint saw him forced to start from 23^rd on the grid for the second race, although together with Chris Harris he’d managed to climb back up into second position when the chequered flag fell. 

The 76^th Members’ Meeting saw one of the more memorable results in the Gordon Spice Trophy’s history when the Ford Escort RS2000 driven by Mark Blundell and Kerry Michael brilliantly saw off the relentless, race-long challenge of Mike Whitaker and Andrew Jordan’s Capri to claim the first victory for a smaller-engined car. 

A year later saw the Rover SD1 return to the top step in both the Sprint and the Trophy race, with Stig Blomqvist then the team of Neel Jani and James Wood taking what remain to date the final victories for the SD1 in the Gordon Spice Trophy. 

Since then, it’s been a Camaro, Capri and Boss Mustang lock-out. First at Speedweek, when Fred Shepherd claimed the first of his three wins to date in that year’s Trophy race in his eye-catching Mustang.

Jack Tetley followed with a great run of results across the 78^th and 79^th Members’ Meetings, when the Gordon Spice Trophy format was refreshed to split the full grid into two heats, one for the larger-engined cars and one for smaller, with both results combined to set the grid for an overall final. Tetley won the heat for the bigger cars before losing out to a remarkable effort from Jake Hill in the final. But he got his own back a year later, when the race returned to its original format, to win both the Sprint and the Trophy race alongside Alex Buncombe. 

Hill’s exploits in the Gitanes Capri have become legendary at Goodwood, and he has gone on to take further victories in the big-engined heat at the 80^th Members’ Meeting, and in Part 1 of last year’s Gordon Spice Trophy. 

Touring car legend Rob Huff claimed a popular overall win when he took victory in the final of the 80^th Members’ Meeting, while Goodwood regular and Mini master Nick Swift claimed his only Gordon Spice Trophy win in that year’s small-capacity heat. 

Fred Shepherd and Romain Dumas are the current holders of the Gordon Spice Trophy. The pair were the most consistent in their Mustang to overhaul the likes of Hill to claim the overall victory at the 82^nd Members’ Meeting.  

Previous winners of the Gordon Spice Trophy 

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Main image photography by Mark Beaumont.